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Proposal: make the str of a float (or complex number) identical to the repr of a float (or complex number), in Python 3.2. This idea came up a couple of times at EuroPython, and generally met with approval.
An open question: what should be done on platforms that don't support the short float repr? In practice, I don't think this matters too much: it's difficult to find such platforms. The simplest thing to do would be to make __str__ identical to __repr__ on all platforms.
This change *will* inevitably break code; the question is whether this level of breakage is acceptable for 3.1 -> 3.2.
I'll also bring this up on the python-dev mailing list.